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Search Engine Watch
July 1, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Letter From Australia I was in Sydney last month for the Search Engine Strategies conference, and in this article, I thought I'd share a few things that stood out in my mind as I listened to the various local speakers discuss search engine marketing.   |
Search Engine Watch
March 4, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Where Are They Now? Search Engines We've Known & Loved Looks at early search engines that have died, those that have been transformed and how the new players that are no longer so young are doing. |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Free Search Engine Submission Is Still Alive! Despite the rise in paid participation programs, it is still possible to get listed in search engines for free... |
AskMen.com
January 31, 2001
Justin Becker |
How To: Use Search Engines Well, no need to feel lost anymore -- here is a map of which search engines I highly recommend, and which ones to use for specific searches. And since information is power, you'll feel like king of the world in no time... |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 1999 |
Search Engine Coverage Study Published In 1998, a landmark study published in Science magazine found that search engines fell well-short of listing everything on the web. Last month, a repeat to this study was published. Once again, search engines were found to contain only a small percentage of the web pages available. |
Search Engine Watch
November 1, 1999 |
Who's The Biggest Of Them All? AltaVista is now claiming to have the largest index of the web, at 250 million pages. But is its claim true? Does the service deserve the title of biggest? Probably -- or certainly it and FAST Search share the title. But it's not possible to say so definitively. |
Technology Research News
October 22, 2003
Kimberly Patch |
Queries guide Web crawlers Search engines approach the problem of sorting out the vast amount of information on the Internet by casting their nets as widely as they can, then sifting through the catch. An algorithm that analyzes what people are looking for could point search engines toward more relevant pages. |
ONLINE
May 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Avoid the Void: Quick and Easy Site Submission Strategies "If I build it, they will come."
This is one of the worst assumptions a Webmaster can make. No one will come unless you also promote your Web site, and search engines are one of the most important places to do this.... |
Search Engine Watch
August 5, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Opens Deep Listings Option To Small Businesses LookSmart has expanded its LookListings paid inclusion program so that small businesses can purchase "deep listings" previously only offered to large businesses with big budgets. |
Searcher
September 2002
Tara Calishain |
URL Inclusion Programs New Revenue Generator for Search Engines |
Search Engine Watch
February 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Europe's Paid Placement Warriors Unlike in the US, Overture faces competition for major partners in the form of United Kingdom-based Espotting... |
Search Engine Watch
September 3, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
German Search Engine Resources Resources that should be useful to anyone who is a German speaker or interested in German search engines. |
Search Engine Watch
September 12, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Finding Disaster Coverage At Search Engines Following the unprecedented terrorist attack on the United States today, web users turned en masse to search engines for information. It took those services some time to adjust to the demand, but as the day progressed, many came up to speed... |
Search Engine Watch
March 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Being Search Boxed To Death General purpose search engines often can do many different jobs. Nevertheless, your results might be better if you turn to a vertical tool. This may be the year that the general purpose search engines finally figure out a way to get the right vertical tools into the hands of their users... |
Search Engine Watch
November 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Lycos Redeems Itself With Relaunch Today's relaunch of Lycos is a surprising reversal of the service's decline. If you gave up on Lycos in the past, it is well worth revisiting the improved service... |
Search Engine Watch
April 6, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Playing with Kids' Search Engines Tips on enabling porn filters for major search engines. And a link to just-updated listings and reviews of search engines for kids. |
Search Engine Watch
May 23, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Meta Search Or Meta Ads? A review of meta search services shows that some are providing results where more than half of their listings are paid links. A guide to what's paid, what's not and how to get the most from your meta search service... |
Search Engine Watch
March 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Lycos & FAST Launch Paid Inclusion After months of beta testing, FAST has finally opened its paid inclusion program to the general public. However, FAST is not selling inclusion into its web index directly. Instead, FAST is allowing its search partners to resell the service to web site owners and site promoters... |
Search Engine Watch
June 2, 2010
Christian Arno |
Thinking Beyond a Monolingual Audience If you're in the business of selling products or services online, here's how to avoid cutting out more than three-quarters of your potential customers -- non-English speakers. |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
The Bumpy Road To Maximum Monetization Most search engines come nowhere near monetizing all the links displayed on their search results pages. However, the quest for greater profits is likely to change this, especially if the search engines think it can be done without hurting the relevancy of their product... |
Search Engine Watch
March 15, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Moreover Powers AltaVista, NBCi News Search Information from news search engine Moreover is now available at both AltaVista and NBCi, giving users of these services easier access to quality news content from across the web. |
Search Engine Watch
May 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
AltaVista Europe Debuts Helpful Search Features AltaVista Europe has rolled out a helpful search management feature and new thumbnail images that appear next to some search results... |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
The End For Search Engines? The impending closure of Go only underscores the dramatic changes that have been taking place among the major search engines. Money is tight; new revenue is being sought anywhere, and no one seems guaranteed a future. Will your favorite search engine be around tomorrow? |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart First To Charge Commercial Sites After months of beta testing, LookSmart has become the first major search service to charge commercial sites to be reviewed for inclusion in its listings. In addition, the revenue-generating move appears to have helped LookSmart win back its former position as AltaVista's directory provider. |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo's Search Engine Continues Evolving A new page dedicated just to Yahoo Search has been added, allowing those who want to bypass all the Yahoo portal and network information that crowds the regular Yahoo home page. The Yahoo Search page presents a Google-like pure search face to the world. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2002
Greg R. Notess |
Dead Search Engines There have been major and significant changes in the search engine industry over the past few years, with surprising announcements almost every month. While most of the search engines' domains remain active, the actual state of the search engines is quite different... |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo, GoTo Top Ways For Paid Traffic Yahoo and GoTo offer the most popular programs for site owners to obtain traffic from search engines, a survey of 94 marketers has found. Respondents to the I-Search mailing list survey also sound off about what they hate, what they like and what they wish to see... |
Search Engine Watch
February 18, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Overture To Buy AltaVista Overture announced today that it intends to purchase AltaVista in a $140 million cash and stock deal. |
Search Engine Watch
September 4, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Monetizing The Search Monetizing the search means making money in some way off the search results you present. More than ever, monetizing the search is a concern for the search engines. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2004
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update As expected, now that Yahoo! has launched its own Yahoo! Search database, this has meant the death of unique databases at older search engines, including AltaVista and AlltheWeb. |
PC World
September 1, 2000
Kim Zetter & Harry McCracken |
How to Stop Searching and Start Finding Tired of wading through useless search-engine results? We test 20 engines to pinpoint the ones that really deliver the goods.... |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Search Resources About Terrorist Attacks A collection of articles and resources relating to search engines and the terrorist attacks... |
Search Engine Watch
October 13, 2010
Michael Bonfils |
Top Tips for Search Engine Marketing in Germany, Part 2 Four more SEM/SEO tips to help your efforts in the difficult German market. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2004
Greg R. Notess |
On The Net - The New Yahoo! Search With all the changes at various search engines, Yahoo! has now risen to the top as one of the major places to look beyond Google. |
Search Engine Watch
May 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Avoiding The Search Gap Are you a victim of the search gap? You could be, if you've focused all your efforts on getting people to your web site via search engines rather considering what happens after they arrive... |
ONLINE
May 2000
Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update AltaVista adds related pages link; Ask Jeeves acquires Direct Hit; New Intelliseek BullsEye Pro 2; Dialog releases WebCheck, etc. |
Search Engine Watch
November 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Submitting For Free Now that all of LookSmart's major partners are offering the paid LookSmart Express Submit program on their own Add URL pages, a number of people believe that they must also pay a fee to be listed in the non LookSmart-powered portions of these search engines... |
InternetNews
August 17, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Sizing Up the Search Competition In the Google-Yahoo rivalry, does the bigger index do a better job? |
Search Engine Watch
July 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
The Evolution Of Paid Inclusion Paid inclusion has always been a tricky concept to explain, but understanding it is important to both webmasters and searchers, as recent changes have suddenly made paid inclusion commonplace with search engines... |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Changes Results, Increases Submission Price Last week, Yahoo's search results pages underwent probably the most significant change since the service began. Yahoo also increased the price of its Yahoo Express submission service to $299, last month... |
Search Engine Watch
August 19, 2008
Mark Jackson |
Search Engine Optimization: Back To Basics There just isn't enough time in the day for you to do everything, so here are a few ideas for SEO basics that you can look at in a short amount of time, that can lead to improved organic search ranking. |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart To Buy WiseNut LookSmart announced last month its intention to purchase the WiseNut search engine, which it hopes will turn LookSmart into an all-in-one solution for portals, internet service providers and others who need a search solution... |
T.H.E. Journal
August 2002
Killmer & Koppel |
So Much Information, So Little Time Evaluating web resources with search engines |
Search Engine Watch
November 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Paid Inclusion At Search Engines Gains Ground Paid inclusion, now in place at Ask Jeeves, LookSmart and Inktomi, guarantee to site owners that they will be included in a search engine's listings in greater depth than might ordinarily occur... |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
The Mixed Message Of Paid Inclusion Pages pitching webmasters on the advantages of paid inclusion end up hurting search engines that run these programs, because they imply that the search engines have out-of-date, incomplete listings of the web... |
Search Engine Watch
June 29, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
FTC Recommends Disclosure To Search Engines The US Federal Trade Commission has made an important recommendation to major search engines suggesting that they better disclose their paid content. This came in response to a complaint made last year by the watchdog group Commercial Alert. |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Time For The Search Dividend? We may be seeing the beginning of a search dividend coming to searchers, now that several of the major search engines are maturing their new business models... |
InternetNews
December 23, 2003
Pamela Parker |
Lycos Europe, Overture Expand Deal, Involve Yahoo! Google and Espotting fail in their bid to replace Yahoo!'s Overture for paid listings on Lycos Europe's search pages. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Overhauls Submission Process, Increases Prices The good news is that over the past month, LookSmart has given site owners greater flexibility than ever before to get listed with the service. The changes make getting listed more complicated, but are especially beneficial for those with non-commercial content... |
Search Engine Watch
June 2, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
The Paid Inclusion Dinosaur A look at the bet Yahoo's making and alternative plays they could have tried. |
